CoastYou are in: Somerset > Coast Take our Coast walk and discover things you might not have known about the Somerset resort of Minehead.  Take our Coast walk and discover things you might not have known about the Somerset resort...  The Minehead Meander begins at the train station, which is run by the West Somerset Railway...  Billy Butlin founded holiday camps, like Minehead's, to provide economical holidays in Britain...  North Hill rises 900 feet from the sea, can be seen for miles around and gives Minehead its name...  The Almshouses on Market House Lane were given to Minehead in 1630 by mariner Robert Quirke...  Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, was born at 4 Blenheim Road in 1917...  Blenheim Gardens are in the centre of town, behind The Avenue, linking the town to the seafront...  The Luttrell family, who owned the Dunster estates, provided Minehead with a stone harbour...  Starting on Minehead seafront, the South West Coast Path is Britain's longest National Trail...  If you don't fancy going on the Minehead Meander, why not sit back and see what you're missing? You are in: Somerset > Coast |
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